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We believe in one God, eternally existent in three persons--Father,
Son and Holy Spirit—and that He created everything out of nothing for
His own pleasure and purpose.
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We believe the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the
verbally inspired Word of God, inerrant and infallible in the original
manuscripts, and the supreme and final authority in matters of faith
and life, interpreted by the Holy Spirit to each individual believer.
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We believe that man was created in the image of God, and when he
sinned the race incurred both physical and spiritual death; thus man
became alienated from God and incapable of remedying his sinful
condition by his own means.
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We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ was begotten of the Father
through the Holy Spirit, was born of the Virgin Mary, and is true man
without ceasing to be God.
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We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ lived a sinless and perfect
life that fully pleased His Father; that He died for our sins on the
cross, bearing the judgment demanded by God's Holy Justice against sin,
thus making it possible for God to remain Just and at the same time to
justify those who believe in Jesus.
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We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead,
never to die again, and is ascended to the right hand of the Father,
where He intercedes as High Priest and Advocate on behalf of all who
believe in Him.
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We believe that those who, by faith alone and through no merit of
their own, receive the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior are miraculously
born again of the Holy Spirit and become, as children of God, partakers
of His divine nature and of eternal life.
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We believe that the Holy Spirit baptizes all true believers into the
one true Church, His Body; that He indwells them eternally, bestows
spiritual gifts upon them, and empowers them for service and holy
living.
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We believe that God through His Word promises those who believe, all
things that pertain to life and godliness, including not only salvation
from the penalty of sin but instruction in righteousness for present
sanctification and victorious living to the glory of God.
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We believe that two ordinances, neither of which is essential to
salvation, are to be observed in obedience to our Lord by all believers
until Christ's return: baptism and the Lord's Supper.
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We believe that at death the souls of the redeemed pass immediately
into Christ's presence, to remain there until the resurrection of the
body at Christ's return for the Church. We also believe that at death
the souls of the lost go to Hell, where they remain until they are
brought before Christ at the Great White Throne final judgment to be
judged according to their works and cast into the Lake of Fire, there
to remain eternally.
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We believe in the bodily resurrection of the redeemed at the
premillennial return of Christ for His Church, when the souls and
spirits of those who have died will be reunited with their bodies, now
immortal, and that believers who are alive at that time, their bodies
likewise transformed into immortality, will be caught up together with
them to meet Christ in the air, ever to be with Him.
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We believe in the personal, bodily return of our Lord Jesus Christ
to rescue Israel at Armageddon and to establish His millennial kingdom,
reigning over this earth from His father David's throne in Jerusalem,
and that His redeemed will reign with Him in resurrected bodies for
1,000 years.
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